This book looks at how NGOs, social organizations, business associations, trade unions, and religious associations interact with the state, and explore how social actors have negotiated the influence of the state at both national and local levels, and examines how a corporatist understanding of state-society relations can be reformulated, as old and new social stakeholders play a greater role in managing contemporary social issues. In turn, the book goes on to chart the differences in how the state behaves locally and centrally, and finally discusses the future direction of the corporatist state.

Jennifer Y.J. Hsu is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Reza Hasmath is a Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Oxford, UK.

Foreword 1. The Changing Faces of State Corporatism 2. Joining Forces to Save the Nation: Corporate Educational Governance in Republican China 3. A Self-Defeating Secret Weapon? The Institutional Limitations of Corporatism on United Front Work 4. Collective Wage Bargaining and State-Corporatism in Contemporary China 5. Keep Business to Business: Associations of Private Enterprise in China 6. Local State Entrepreneurialism in China: Its Urban Representations, Institutional Foundations and Policy Implications 7. The State-Religion Relationship in Contemporary China: Corporatism With Hegemony 8. The Rise and Impact of the Local State on the NGO Sector 9. The Chinese Corporatist State: Lessons Learned for Other Jurisdictions